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BEETROOT & CHOCOLATE CAKE

Please don't let the title of this recipe put you off of trying this contemporary cake! The beetroot adds a wicked sweetness to an already classic cake. If you find yourself hesitant to try this, think of ham and coca cola, sounds strange but tastes fantastic!

Recipe posted by jemkwall

Ingredients

  • Vegetarian
  • 175g Plain Flour
  • 10g Baking Powder
  • 75g Cocoa Powder
  • 225g Caster Sugar
  • 3 Eggs
  • 225g Raw, roasted, peeled and chopped beetroot
  • 200ml Corn Oil

 For the Chocolate ganache:

  • 250g Dark Chocolate
  • 250ml Double Cream

Method

Serves: 10
  1. Preheat the oven to 200C / gas mark 6.
  2. Grease and line a 20cm cake tin (pref spring form)
  3. Sift the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and sugar into a bowl.
  4. Blend the eggs, beetroot and corn oil in a blender until smooth. Fold the beetroot mixture into the dry ingredients. Bake for 40 minutes.
  5. Meanwhile, make the ganache. Put the double cream into a saucepan and simmer gently until just before it reaches boiling point. Break the chocolate into pieces and put into a mixing bowl.
  6. Pour the warmed double cream onto the broken chocolate and mix gently until the two are blended together to make a silky chocolate icing.
  7. Remove the cake from the oven and leave to cool, once chilled generously cover the cake with the chocolate ganache.
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